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"My families come here all light, all light, all light!" "Just as I thought," said Rob, aside, to the others. "It is we who are the visitors, not they. John, you act as interpreter. Ask him how far it is to Kadiak." The keen-witted chief caught the sound of the latter word. "You come Kadiak?" he said. "Come dory? You no got-um schooner?" "Schooner by-and-by," broke in Rob, hurriedly.
“No good,” said he. “Too much devil he stop there.” “Oho!” says I, “got-um plenty devil, that bush?” “Man devil, woman devil; too much devil,” said my friend. “Stop there all-e-time. Man he go there, no come back.” I thought if this fellow was so well posted on devils and spoke of them so free, which is not common, I had better fish for a little information about myself and Uma.
"No want-um white mans," answered the chief. "Village over dar." He pointed across the mountains. Rob guessed that these natives had therefore followed around the coast-line from their town, although he was not yet clear as to their purpose in coming hither. "You got-um bad mans here," said the chief, sternly, at last. "See-um boat dar." He pointed to the bidarka at the edge of the lagoon.
"You got-um bad mans!" asserted the chief again. "One mans," admitted Rob. "Maybe so good mans; we don't know." "Where you comes?" asked the chief, presently, looking about him. "This my house here. White mans come here now?" Rob did not think it best to admit that they were castaway and lost on these distant shores, so he determined to put on a bold front.
"No good," said he. "Too much devil he stop there." "Oho!" says I, "got-um plenty devil, that bush?" "Man devil, woman devil; too much devil," said my friend. "Stop there all-e-time. Man he go there, no come back." I thought if this fellow was so well posted on devils and spoke of them so free, which is not common, I had better fish for a little information about myself and Uma.
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